Computational methods for shape restoration of buried objects in Compton backscatter imaging

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-67

  Watanabe, Yoichi ^a,b   Monroe, James ^a   Keshavmurthy, Shyam ^a   Jacobs, Alan M ^a   Dugan, Edward T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); CALCULATIONS; DETECTORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

ARTIFACTS; COMPTON BACKSCATTER IMAGING; LAND MINES; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONS; PHOTON TRANSPORT PROBLEM;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0029733674     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE96-A28547     Document Type: Article

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